Art Market

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Henry Moore etching.

Private domestic demand rather than trade drives bidding at Scottish and Irish art auctions.

A sensitive portrait of a First World War soldier by the Irish painter William Orpen (1878-1931) was among a series of valuable lots chased by bidders at art sales in Dublin.

The English artist and poster designer Alfred Thomson (1894-1979) painted this eye-catching depiction of the famous penguin pool at London Zoo.

Dearth of fresh works coming to the market is a challenge for Old Master auction series.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Eric Ravilious print.

Rarely seen in public before, this signed 18in x 2ft (45 x 65cm) gouache is one of the earliest works by the British Modernist painter John Armstrong (1893-1973).

A bid of £5000 from a Contemporary art gallery in London secured this post-war portrait by the writer and Vorticist painter Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a William Henry Hunt self-portrait.

Varied selection of Down Under images joins British art on offer in Salisbury saleroom.

Two Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) gouache watercolours painted during her artistic prime were taken to multi-estimate sums at separate UK salerooms in the same week.

Paintings by Leeds-born artist Louis H Grimshaw (1870-1943) are often overshadowed by his better-known father, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1863-93).

Paintings by 20th century artists who flocked to Paris during its artistic heyday were the main focus in a sale of Impressionist, Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art at south London auction house Roseberys (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).

Several 19th and 20th century sporting paintings from named estates provided a healthy boost at two regional salerooms.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a David Young Cameron castle view.

“I will always be a painter of beaches,” declared Eugène Boudin (1824-98) in 1864.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.

Bidders respond positively to auction combination of quality, freshness and pricing.

An international buyer paid £34,000 for a 15th century Netherlandish School oil on panel of the Virgin and St Elizabeth which was last on the market in 1955.

A pair of engravings after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-69) sold for more than six-times estimate at auction in Essex.